The Scientist, the Fossil, and the Prince. From the Lab to the Palace.
Odile Jacob| N° d'inventaire | 22414 |
| Format | 14.5 x 22 |
| Détails | 480 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782738150424 |
Who isn't interested in human origins? In a career spanning more than sixty-five years, from excavations in Ethiopia to those in Chad, from his laboratories at the Musée de l'Homme and the Collège de France to presidential and princely palaces, the prehistory specialist has met heads of state from around the world. The fossil becomes a pretext for privileged exchanges with those who are making history today. In this book, Yves Coppens paints fifty unexpected and intimate portraits of Presidents Pompidou, Giscard, Mitterrand, Chirac, Sarkozy, Hollande, Queen Elizabeth II, Emperor Haile Selassie, Nelson Mandela, Popes Benedict XVI and Francis, and many others... fifty portraits that are also fifty witty encounters around the fundamental questions of the origin and future of the human species.
Who isn't interested in human origins? In a career spanning more than sixty-five years, from excavations in Ethiopia to those in Chad, from his laboratories at the Musée de l'Homme and the Collège de France to presidential and princely palaces, the prehistory specialist has met heads of state from around the world. The fossil becomes a pretext for privileged exchanges with those who are making history today. In this book, Yves Coppens paints fifty unexpected and intimate portraits of Presidents Pompidou, Giscard, Mitterrand, Chirac, Sarkozy, Hollande, Queen Elizabeth II, Emperor Haile Selassie, Nelson Mandela, Popes Benedict XVI and Francis, and many others... fifty portraits that are also fifty witty encounters around the fundamental questions of the origin and future of the human species.